Nigella Lawson

And now there are zero Yvon Lambert galleries. In 2011, Yvon Lambert closed his New York location; this December, he will close his nearly 40-year-old Paris gallery to focus on his private collection. [Libération via Alain Servais]

Celebrity TV host asshole Adam Richman gets fired after ranting on Instagram about how he can use a hashtag used by anorexic teens. Oh, and he told the Insta-dissenters to go kill themselves. All this goes to prove that feminism is still relevant. [D-listed]

Before there was BuzzFeed, there was radio: “The BuzzFeed formula — not just personalizing pop trivia, but treating it as an inexorable element of our emotional makeup — feels like the natural outcome of several decades of plug-in room deodorizers and Toyotathons and hamburger-slinging clowns.” [New York Times Magazine]

Blast from the past: Salt-N-Pepa’s “Shoop.” Why link it up now? Because it’s GOOD! [YouTube]

The Telegraph asked Charles Saatchi if “throttle” is a new genre of art, after seven paintings and drawings of him strangling his former wife Nigella Lawson showed up on SaatchiArt.com. Saatchi says it’s not a genre. [The Telegraph]

Activist group Save the Corcoran filed a motion in D.C. Superior Court to stop the dissolution of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design. Their petition claims that the Corcoran’s current board members are in violation of the museum’s trust by closing the institution. Current plans include breaking up the institution between George Washington University and the National Gallery of Art. [Washington City Paper]

Rhizome archivist Dragan Espenschied helped Cory Arcangel restore “Bomb Iraq,” a homemade computer game on a Macintosh TV. He goes on to discuss the value of the truly obscure digital artifact. [Rhizome]

Toronto needs more shirtless joggers. Joe Killoran ran into Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and told him what he thought of his leadership. The video went viral and he was even interviewed in the National Post. [The Globe and Mail]

Yesterday the Miami art fairs brought us a range of celebrity-filled events we did not attend. From Hans Ulrich-Obrist in conversation with Kanye West about art and design—“What did I paint when I was in school? Music.”—to Lady Gaga’s dinner gala, Kanye West performing with Vanessa Beecroft, and the opening of the Perez Art Museum, we cried for the 41 whales remain beached in the Everglades. [Miami Herald]

Hunting down celebrity events are easy with this massive guide from the Miami Herald. [Miami Herald]

Bill Clinton presidential doodles have been leaked by Guccifer, the same person who hacked George Bush’s paintings (and a lot of other high-security breaches, etc). With a little practice, these stationary drawings could be ready for The New Yorker. [Gawker]

Millionaire art dealer Charles Saatchi was not in fact checking wife Nigella Lawson’s nose for cocaine when he was gripping her throat in public. [HuffPo]

You probably can’t get to the top without stabbing everybody in the back– is what we conclude from this Gallerist exposé by the London art dealer Kenny Schachter. He details what happened when his beloved in-law died and entrusted him with an art collection, and the vulture-dealers who have been scheming ever since. “[T]hese people are not an easy lot to keep at bay,” he writes, “especially when the wolves (competitors and shareholders) are huffing and puffing and trying blow their house down.”[Gallerist]

“To make matters worse,” he writes, “I wrote this on BA Flight 207 non-stop London to Miami for Miami Basel, surrounded on all sides by some of the protagonists. At one point I had to obscure my computer screen.” Oh my god. [Gallerist]

The blue chip world isn’t all that bad. Now one lucky raffle participant will win a $1 million Picasso for the raffle ticket price of $100. The December It’s a fundraiser to rebuild the city of Tyre, Lebanon, after it’s been devastated by Lebanon Civil War. [Hyperallergic, 1picasso100euros.com]

New issue of Cura includes a poem by Paul Legault called “Mary Desti’s Ass” [Cura]

If you’d like to see something grisly this morning, check out Emanuele Satolli ‘s photos from inside a “krokadil” cookhouse in Yekaterinburg, Russia. The flesh-eating drug is easy to make and has effects like heroin, but it turns your skin dark and scaly like a crocadile’s. [TIME]

Is this a joke? The New Museum has announced that it now sells CRONUTS. [Facebook]

Collector Charles Saatchi has announced he will divorce his wife Nigella Lawson three weeks after having been photographed with his hands around her throat. [The Guardian]

The Royal Ballet of Canada has been accused of unfairly firing an aspiring ballet star for participating in porn movies. [CBC]

Roberta Smith thinks “Life Cast,” by Paul McCarthy, featuring four sculptures and process videos, has been overlooked. [The New York Times]

Paul McCarthy’s “WS” at the Park Avenue Armory is already the art institution’s second most attended exhibition. Not bad for a show that contains nudity, faked violence and explicit sexual acts. Apparently this is attracting the young’ns. [The New York Times]

U.S. paint brush manufacturers, the subject of Economist Adam Davidson’s latest column in the New York Times Magazine, have taken a hit since the economy crashed. Chinese competition has taken a chunk of their market, but these businesses have stayed alive through specialization. [The New York Times Magazine]

Charles Saatchi was caught choking his wife Nigella Lawson outside a restaurant. He voluntarily turned himself into the police for a “caution”. No charges have been pressed. [The Guardian]

New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman says the Le Corbusier show at MoMA is overwhelming thanks to its sheer size, but still finds the show riveting. Le Corbusier had some fascinating ideas, good and bad. [The New York Times]

The Metropolitan Museum of art will present Janet Cardiff’s “Forty-Part Motet” at the Cloisters this fall. This isn’t something anyone in the city should miss. [Met Museum via Brian Sholis]

Ai Weiwei Skyped with Laurie Anderson to create art. We are linking to the video record of the performance just so that you know how uninspiring hearing Ai Weiwei chat about China over drone music really is. Starts at 13:35. [Luminato Festival, via @aiwwenglish]

Now on view at Arsenal Gallery, Benson’s collaged paintings of Central Park playgrounds depict the now out of use playgrounds of post-Robert Moses Central Park. Laura Mallonee suggests that just calling attention to these parks is a step towards repairing them, making a better New York for inner-city children. [Hyperallergic]